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Corporate tax reform is a hot topic in today’s US political environment. Professor Dhammika Dharmapala looks at how America’s corporate tax structure has led to multiple anomalies, such as the practice of firms keeping earnings offshore and relocating their headquarters abroad for tax reasons. Dharmapala’s analysis looks purely at the economic aspects of corporate taxes, omitting the more controversial political facets, but it provides a useful framework for reform. getAbstract believes policy makers and business executives would benefit from this informative report.

In this summary, you will learn

How the current US corporate tax system results in various inefficiencies

What behaviors companies engage in to avoid taxes

Which tax reforms could address some of these inefficiencies

Summary

Business tax reform is a major issue in the United States, which has a higher nominal corporate tax rate than other nations. It’s also the only top economy that continues to tax its US-based multinationals on their global earnings.